Pacific Soil Partnership

The Pacific Soil Partnership (PaSP), currently hosted by the Pacific Community (SPC), was established in October 2014. Acknowledging that region's soils are diverse and vulnerable, joint activities based on resource and information sharing are key to increase local food production and food quality, achieve climate change mitigation and adaptation, control land degradation and improve environmental management. In this framework, national needs and priorities are translated into regional actions through implementation plans revised at the yearly PaSP annual plenary meetings.

Countries involved

Australia

Cook Islands

Fiji

Kiribati

Marshall Islands

Federated States of Micronesia

Nauru

New Zealand

Niue

Palau

Papua New Guinea

Samoa

Solomon Islands

Tokelau

Tonga

Tuvalu

Vanuatu

See the list of GSP national focal points

Governance

Chair: Siosiua Halavatau (Tonga)

Regional facilitator: Yuxin Tong (GSP Secretariat)

Key document

Status of the World’s Soil Resources. Chapter 15: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in the Southwest Pacific

01/01/2015

The SWSR is a reference document on the status of global soil resources that provides regional assessments of soil change..

Recent events

2024 – Sixth Pacific Soil Partnership plenary meeting, 21 - 22 August | Report | Recording
2022 - Extraordinary session of the Pacific Soil Partnership meeting, 4 August | Report | Recordings
2022 - Fifth Pacific Soil Partnership plenary meeting, 12 - 13 April | Report | Recordings: 1st day and 2nd day
2019 - Fourth Pacific Soil Partnership plenary meeting, 21 - 23 May | Brisbane communiqué
2016 - Third Pacific Soil Partnership plenary meeting, 12 December | Queenstown communiqué
2016 - Second Pacific Soil Partnership plenary meeting, 18 -19 April | Nadi communiqué
2014 - First Pacific Soil Partnership plenary meeting, 13 October | Suva communiqué

News

The Global Soil Partnership strengthens its collaboration with the Pacific Soil Partnership

11/11/2024

Declining productivity of the Pacific: Agriculture (including fisheries, marine products, forestry and primary forestry products) is the backbone of Pacific Island economies and a significant contributor to livelihoods. Roughly 50 to...